1/2/08 - 7/2/08

This weeks lecture was based on text; where and why it is used such as webpages so we more or less covered the basic concepts of it. We were also given pointers on what to consider when designing such as who is going to be reading it, how it is going to be presented and where it is going to be used. We were also told how text can be used for different purposes such as to represent an image. He also talked about text codes which I decided to look up for my external reading this week:

http://www.grasshopperllc.com/help/PGSuser/textcodes.html
http://www.asciitable.com/

The tutorial this week followed on from last weeks, which is the one I missed. But I had got the notes for it from somebody in my tutorial group and sort of managed to catch up. This weeks tutorial was an introduction to page layout using XHTML and CSS which we had previously been told about in one of the lectures. We were given a link to a website to get different CSS codes. We had to create / attatch style sheets, add content to it such as titles and then format them to specific fonts etc that we wanted to use, all using XHTML and CSS.

Overall I found the lecture a lot more interesting than before, again because I found the topic more interesting than some of the previous lectures and also found it a lot easier to understand. I found the idea of text for other things such as images interesting. The tutorial was a bit less straight forward than usual because I hadn't managed to make it to last week, so I was really playing catch up, but I still found using dreamweaver interesting and I don't think it will take me too long to catch back up.